Irina Kontsevaya
Dr. Irina Kontsevaya is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Center Borstel, Germany, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Her research focus is on tuberculosis diagnostics, novel biomarkers of disease and cure, and treatment monitoring tools. She has experience in designing and conducting randomised clinical trials and observational studies in the field of tuberculosis as well as nontuberculous Mycobacteria. Irina has obtained her PhD in Genetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has extensive experience in tuberculosis diagnostics in a high tuberculosis/drug-resistant tuberculosis burden setting. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of TBnet, the Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group, where she is responsible for diagnostics.